Ravens running back Ray Rice officially has the support of the team's owner, Steve Bisciotti, who spoke at the NFL owners' meetings on Monday about the ex-Rutgers RB's legal troubles.

"If everybody was one-strike-and-you're-out, then we'd all be in trouble," Bisciotti said, via ESPN.com's Jamison Hensley. "When somebody repeats mistakes, it's showing a lack of character to me. You can't take what Ray's done -- the kind of locker-room influence he's been and the kind of community commitment that he's shown -- and say he's a different person."

The owner has spoken with Rice and reiterated to the media that he wouldn't support "repeated failures." But the damage has been done to Rice, even with Bisciotti behind him.

"It's humiliating to him and his fiancee, and they're both dying over this negative publicity," he said.